Joss Moorkens
@jossmo.bsky.social
Translation Studies/Technology at Dublin City University & The ADAPT Centre. Perpetual dabbler.
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New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation.
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation.
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
@jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use.
See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland
The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.
www.thenation.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village.
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village.
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself.
Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
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Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato
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Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?)
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?)
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts.
Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst
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Recently published open access article:
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Recently published open access article:
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach
Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes.
Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
More info:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
🙌 Sharing is appreciated!
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
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“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
16 years ago today I finished teaching classes to gifted teenagers and drove to Galway, where we played a gig with @deerhoof.bsky.social.
Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.
Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.
July 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
16 years ago today I finished teaching classes to gifted teenagers and drove to Galway, where we played a gig with @deerhoof.bsky.social.
Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.
Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.
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Thank you @jossmo.bsky.social for your thought provoking keynote talk: 'Ethics and MT evaluation: an exploded view'. A lot of questions for you!
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Thank you @jossmo.bsky.social for your thought provoking keynote talk: 'Ethics and MT evaluation: an exploded view'. A lot of questions for you!
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ADAPT DCU’s Dr Joss Moorkens is set to deliver a keynote address this week at the @mtsummit2025.bsky.social
in Switzerland, one of the most prominent gatherings for the global #MT community. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
in Switzerland, one of the most prominent gatherings for the global #MT community. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ADAPT DCU’s Dr Joss Moorkens is set to deliver a keynote address this week at the @mtsummit2025.bsky.social
in Switzerland, one of the most prominent gatherings for the global #MT community. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
in Switzerland, one of the most prominent gatherings for the global #MT community. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
@researchireland.ie
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Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We're calling for proposals for Guest-Edited Issue 16(1) of Translation Spaces (articles online first; print issue: July 2027). You'll find details of the journal at benjamins.com/catalog/ts and the call details are at lnkd.in/eBqpcje9
Consider sending us your proposal before September 1st 2025!
Consider sending us your proposal before September 1st 2025!
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We're calling for proposals for Guest-Edited Issue 16(1) of Translation Spaces (articles online first; print issue: July 2027). You'll find details of the journal at benjamins.com/catalog/ts and the call details are at lnkd.in/eBqpcje9
Consider sending us your proposal before September 1st 2025!
Consider sending us your proposal before September 1st 2025!
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ADAPT's Dr Joss Moorkens, DCU, recently delivered a lecture on the evaluation of #machinetranslation for Harvard Medical School. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ADAPT's Dr Joss Moorkens, DCU, recently delivered a lecture on the evaluation of #machinetranslation for Harvard Medical School. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...
JC Penet, Masaru Yamada and I have coedited a forthcoming book on Language Science Press entitled Teaching translation in the age of generative AI: New paradigm, new learning?
We & authors would really appreciate your comments on the draft chapters before June 23rd paperhive.org/documents/it...
1/2
We & authors would really appreciate your comments on the draft chapters before June 23rd paperhive.org/documents/it...
1/2
May 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
JC Penet, Masaru Yamada and I have coedited a forthcoming book on Language Science Press entitled Teaching translation in the age of generative AI: New paradigm, new learning?
We & authors would really appreciate your comments on the draft chapters before June 23rd paperhive.org/documents/it...
1/2
We & authors would really appreciate your comments on the draft chapters before June 23rd paperhive.org/documents/it...
1/2
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This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...
youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...
Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to See This
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...
youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...
The latest by Patrick Freyne from Chad, with empathy and hope springing up in the worst situations. Part of a great series.
We visited a women's centre in the refugee camp in Adre in Chad set up by a refugee and social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes. The stories are very upsetting but the women there were really resilient and open and kind to each other www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
‘There were four girls raped in front of us. Their mother cried for their safety’
Rape and sexual assault are used as weapons of war in Sudan. A refuge in Adre in Chad offers ‘a safe space for women and girls’ where they can make handicrafts and talk
www.irishtimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The latest by Patrick Freyne from Chad, with empathy and hope springing up in the worst situations. Part of a great series.